peter.chiu@stfc.ac.uk said the following on 02/04/2013 04:57 AM:
Hi,
I have mounted OpenSuse 12.2 on a DELL Optiplx 960 from scratch.
? "mounted" ?
After the installation, all seems to be working fine.
By "all" do you mean that after the installation but before the update you have the video login, could login, get a GUI with icons and menu?
Looks like the console start up screen is somehow corrupted.
Please, do you mean the GUI (hot-key F7) or the text-mode console (hot-key F1) or do you mean the 'console' in the sense of the text-mode boot sequence? If all you see is the splash screen you may want to edit that boot kernel command line and remove the "splash" ... When you see the boot screen press the 'Esc" button to get into edit mode. When you boot without the splash screen you will see the details of the boot sequence go by. Too fast?
There is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but a set of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ files. A new scheme that I am not familiar with now.
A new scheme we've had a for a few years :-) xorg got smarts and can self configure in many straight forward cases so you don't need (and don't want!) xorg.conf. You can specify individual parts, like a featured mouse or a synaptic tablet or a specific attribute of your display (maybe you have many physical screens side by side or rotated to 'page mode') and specify JUST THAT.
Does anyone have any idea what happens?
We'd have to see your logs for that! The oblivious place to start is - as always with xorg - /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Are there "EE" lines there? You may have to back-trace to the kernel/boot and make sure the kernel has he module for the particular graphics card you are using. That may need fixing in /etc/modules* But not knowing your kernel, your card, the log files the output of 'lsmod' and other things, no we don't have any idea what happened. Or rather we have many, many ideas what might have happened but can't tell which are valid without those details. -- There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. -- Alfred Korzybski -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org